This may seem like a no-brainer, but I can't find a way to do this that isn't considered a security issue (other than the obvious ways)... So, I want to build an add-on for Firefox to use with my team. Basically it will be a status bar icon letting us know if the authentication cookie for our tools site has expired, so we can tell witho...
Hello i know i can write c++ back end and use xul(runner) as the front end but can i use java as back end and still use xul as front end ( executing java code ) ? ...
I am not sure if this is possible, partly because I have no clue what the terminology would be... I want to create an extension that, among other things, will have a feature where, when the user clicks on the status bar icon a small window will slide out and inside that window will be a website login page. They would then login as norma...
Anyone reading my last batch of questions knows I'm working on a Firefox add-on for my office intranet. So, here's the latest; this time a concern instead of an obstacle: So, my first plan was to build a sign-in form right into the chrome, so that it blended and didn't require any dealings with iframes/browsers/etc. But after some think...
I am writing a custom xulrunner-based app and I wish to have some files deployed in the user profile the first time the application is run. I placed the files in my application's defaults/profile directory but they did not get copied to user's profile during the first run of the application. Should I write some additional code or this ...
Hi All, Can anyone tell me that how can i resize a window in XUL.I tried resizable but it is not working. ...
Hi guys, I'm trying to create a panel popping up from the sidebar which contains a Haptek player. I wasn't able to get it to work initially because of the document.write() command in it's javascript interface. So I ended up using an iframe object inside the panel which contained an HTML page loading the Haptek player. The problem howeve...
After spending a lot of time and code on programming in Swing, I thought this can't be state-of-the-art Java GUI building. After not finding a user-friendly visual gui bilder for eclipse I stumbled upon declarative GUI building with XML UI toolkits... and I thought: This must be it! I think it's the right way to go, easy and also close t...
I need to intercept all mail sent by Thunderbird and block sending if there is a predefined string in the mail body. It should be a part of our already existing XPCOM dll addon. Do you have any ideas how to implement it? ...
While developing a firefox extension, I create a wizard window from overlay.js using: this.wizard = window.openDialog("chrome://firenow/content/wizard.xul", "","chrome, dialog, modal, resizable=no", params); this.wizard.focus(); How can I close the wizard from overlay.js? I should call its cancel() function but I can't get it working!...
I am implementing firefox extension using XUL. I have set of java classes that is zipped as jar which needs to be accessed through javascript. If I copy my jar into jre's lib/ext then javascript will be able to invoke my java classes. If I remove from ext and package this jar in xpi, Javascript is unable to find the classpath for my ...
I have a toolbarbutton and in certain cases it needs to be disabled. However, I want the menupopup child to still be enabled. Is this possible? If not, any suggestions on how to achieve similar functionality? I don't want to use two separate buttons for two reasons: I like the look of the entire button being outlined when I hover over...
I am working on a Firefox addon and I currently need to dynamically add menuitems to a menupopup element. I have tried basically all of the approaches on the Mozilla Developer Center and none of them work. function populateDropdown() { var counter = 0; for (var key in services) { var newMenuItem = document.createElementNS("http:...
How can I catch the event when "a page starts to load in the Browser"? How can I access the HTML and manipulate it with XUL? ...
Hi, I want to set a minimum size for my xulrunner applications' main window.I have tried minwidth and minheight but didnt work.wat am i missing out? ...
Hello All, I trying to figure out how to write a Firefox extension that would give image information when i right-click on the image. Basically, I want image path when user right-clicks on the image. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. ...
Hi, suppose, we have a Mozilla Prism like XULRunner app. There is a XUL window with a <browser/> element, where the browser shows a web page on a given domain (say, example.com). Now there are several links on example.com. If a user follows a local link (i.e., stays on example.com) she should be allowed to follow. If on the other hand ...
I'm currently building my first Firefox extension, and am having a little difficulty with one piece of functionality. I'd like to open a new browser tab in response to a button click on the toolbar. The new tab should contain the contents of a webpage, together with some extra buttons. At the moment I've created a separate xul file for ...
Hi, I am writing one Web Application using XUL. In that Iam using AJAX XMLHttpRequest Object for sending request to server. When I use GPRS connection to send the request to the server from my web application the request is not going, but readyState has changed to 4 and status=0. If the request is not going out how the readyState is Cha...
I am writing a Firefox extension. When a user highlights and right clicks a selected text on a webpage, the extension captures the text and displays it in a textbox (xul window). The textbox shows the correct formating (like the line breaks, spaces, * for li tags.). But the problem happens when i try to store the textbox value in a varia...